The Limits Of Leviathan

Author : Robert E. Scott,Paul B. Stephan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139460286

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The Limits of Leviathan by Robert E. Scott,Paul B. Stephan Pdf

Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work. Originally published in 2006, The Limits of Leviathan identifies areas in international law where formal enforcement provides the most promising means of promoting cooperation and where it does not. In particular, it looks at the International Criminal Court, the rules for world trade, efforts to enlist domestic courts to enforce orders of the International Court of Justice, domestic judicial enforcement of the Geneva Convention, the domain of international commercial agreements, and the question of odious debt incurred by sovereigns. This book explains how international law, like contract, depends largely on the willingness of responsible parties to make commitments.

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226078205

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The Limits of Liberty by James M. Buchanan Pdf

"The Limits of Liberty is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate limits. The latter is a matter of great practical importance and is of no small significance from the standpoint of political philosophy."—Scott Gordon, Journal of Political Economy James Buchanan offers a strikingly innovative approach to a pervasive problem of social philosophy. The problem is one of the classic paradoxes concerning man's freedom in society: in order to protect individual freedom, the state must restrict each person's right to act. Employing the techniques of modern economic analysis, Professor Buchanan reveals the conceptual basis of an individual's social rights by examining the evolution and development of these rights out of presocial conditions.

Author : Jeffrey R. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478816

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In the Shadow of Leviathan by Jeffrey R. Collins Pdf

Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.

Author : Maldwyn Allen Jones
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Oxford University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008160684

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The Limits of Liberty by Maldwyn Allen Jones Pdf

A history of America between the years 1607 and 1980.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486122144

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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Author : James McGill Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:530682365

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The limits of liberty, between anarchy and Leviathan by James McGill Buchanan Pdf

Author : Mark Coeckelbergh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000394085

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Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty by Mark Coeckelbergh Pdf

This book discusses the problem of freedom and the limits of liberalism considering the challenges of governing climate change and artificial intelligence (AI). It mobilizes resources from political philosophy to make an original argument about the future of technology and the environment. Can artificial intelligence save the planet? And does that mean we will have to give up our political freedom? Stretching the meaning of freedom but steering away from authoritarian options, this book proposes that, next to using other principles such as justice and equality and taking collective action and cooperating at a global level, we adopt a positive and relational conception of freedom that creates better conditions for human and non-human flourishing. In contrast to easy libertarianism and arrogant techno-solutionism, this offers a less symptomatic treatment of the global crises we face and gives technologies such as AI a role in the gathering of a new, more inclusive political collective and the ongoing participative making of new common worlds. Written in a clear and accessible style, Green Leviathan or the Poetics of Political Liberty will appeal to researchers and students working in political philosophy, environmental philosophy, and the philosophy of technology.

Author : Cass R. Sunstein,Adrian Vermeule
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674247536

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Law and Leviathan by Cass R. Sunstein,Adrian Vermeule Pdf

From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials who respect that morality never fail to make rules in the first place. They ensure transparency, so that people are made aware of the rules with which they must comply. They never abuse retroactivity, so that people can rely on current rules, which are not under constant threat of change. They make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other. These principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, without explicit enunciation, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. But we can aspire for better. In more robust form, these principles could address many of the concerns that have critics of the administrative state mourning what they see as the demise of the rule of law. The bureaucratic Leviathan may be an inescapable reality of complex modern democracies, but Sunstein and Vermeule show how we can at last make peace between those who accept its necessity and those who yearn for its downfall.

Author : A. P. Martinich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521531233

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The Two Gods of Leviathan by A. P. Martinich Pdf

In this provocative new study, Professor Martinich shows that religious concerns pervade Leviathan and indicates how, for Hobbes, Christian doctrine is not politically destabilising and is consistent with modern science.

Author : Yochai Benkler
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Altruism
ISBN : 9780385525763

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The Penguin and the Leviathan by Yochai Benkler Pdf

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Author : Les Beldo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226657400

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Contesting Leviathan by Les Beldo Pdf

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers from the Makah Indian Tribe and antiwhaling activists have clashed for over twenty years, with no end to this conflict in sight. In Contesting Leviathan, anthropologist Les Beldo describes the complex judicial and political climate for whale conservation in the United States, and the limits of the current framework in which whales are treated as “large fish” managed by the National Marine Fisheries Service. Emphasizing the moral dimension of the conflict between the Makah, the US government, and antiwhaling activists, Beldo brings to light the lived ethics of human-animal interaction, as well as how different groups claim to speak for the whale—the only silent party in this conflict. A timely and sensitive study of a complicated issue, this book calls into question anthropological expectations regarding who benefits from the exercise of state power in environmental conflicts, especially where indigenous groups are involved. Vividly told and rigorously argued, Contesting Leviathan will appeal to anthropologists, scholars of indigenous culture, animal activists, and any reader interested in the place of animals in contemporary life.

Author : Susanne Sreedhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139488303

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Hobbes on Resistance by Susanne Sreedhar Pdf

Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important cases where Hobbes claims that subjects have a right to disobey and resist state power, even when their lives are not directly threatened. Drawing attention to this broader set of rights, her comprehensive analysis of Hobbes's account of political disobedience reveals a unified and coherent theory of resistance that has previously gone unnoticed and undefended. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in the nature and limits of political authority, the right of self-defense, the right of revolution, and the modern origins of these issues.

Author : Michael P. Krom
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441182616

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The Limits of Reason in Hobbes's Commonwealth by Michael P. Krom Pdf

The Limits of Reason in Hobbes's Commonwealth explores Hobbes's attempt to construct a political philosophy of enduring peace on the foundation of the rational individual. Hobbes's rational individual, motivated by self-preservation, obeys the laws of the commonwealth and thus is conceived as the model citizen. Yet Hobbes intimates that there are limits to what such an actor will do for peace, and that the glory-seeker - "too rarely found to be presumed on" - is capable of a generosity that is necessary for political longevity. Michael P. Krom identifies this as a fundamental contradiction in Hobbes's system: he builds the commonwealth on the rational actor, yet acknowledges the need for the irrational glory-seeker. Krom argues that Hobbes's attempt to establish a "king of the proud" fails to overcome the limits of reason and the precariousness of politics. This book synthesizes recent work on Hobbes's understanding of glory and political stability, challenging the view that Hobbes succeeds in incorporating glory-seekers into his political theory and explores the implications of this for contemporary political philosophy after Rawls.

Author : Ariel Ron
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421439334

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Grassroots Leviathan by Ariel Ron Pdf

How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state. Recipient of The Center for Civil War Research's 2021 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural History Society In this sweeping look at rural society from the American Revolution to the Civil War, Ariel Ron argues that agricultural history is central to understanding the nation's formative period. Upending the myth that the Civil War pitted an industrial North against an agrarian South, Grassroots Leviathan traces the rise of a powerful agricultural reform movement spurred by northern farmers. Ron shows that farming dominated the lives of most Americans through almost the entire nineteenth century and traces how middle-class farmers in the "Greater Northeast" built a movement of semipublic agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that fundamentally recast Americans' relationship to market forces and the state.

Author : David P. Gauthier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198243359

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The Logic of Leviathan by David P. Gauthier Pdf

Oxford Scholarly Classics brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design, they will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.